The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Southwest Air drops as US airlines contend with soaring fuel [44d]
• ‘I think it’s a mistake’: Delta CEO Ed Bastian refuses to call it ‘artificial intelligence’ because it scares people [44d]
• Lululemon names former Nike executive O’Neill its next CEO [44d]
• Jay Leno hypes up Burbank Airport bond sale to muni investors [44d]
• GOP senator blocking Warsh makes his stand on market stability [44d]
• Georgia Democrat Rep. David Scott, ‘trailblazer’ seeking his 13th term in Congress, dies at age 80 [44d]
• Two dead, dozens hospitalized after a gas plant leak in West Virginia’s ‘chemical valley’ [44d]
• Officials will flush 50,000 toilets to flood a Utah lake in order to generate electricity [44d]
• The Kansas City Royals are betting $3B on downtown in partnership with Hallmark [44d]
• Record numbers of kids are enrolling in state-funded preschool as Trump pushes states to cover costs amid federal funding for wars [44d]
• Meet ‘Ace,’ the paddle-wielding robot who just beat humans at ping pong in AI breakthrough [44d]
• The Strait of Hormuz chaos is just a ‘dry run’ for if war breaks out between the U.S. and China, Singapore foreign minister says [44d]
• Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO is a former Google intern who just inked a $60 billion deal with SpaceX [44d]
• Best Buy CEO Corie Barry is stepping down: How she went from architect of a comeback to cautionary tale [44d]
• David’s Bridal exec has a warning for every CEO obsessed with AI’s return-on-investment [44d]
• Visa CMO: AI agents are your new customers — here’s how to sell to them [44d]
• Federal appeals court blocks California law requiring federal agents to wear badges or ID because it ‘attempts to directly regulate the U.S.’ [44d]
• Beef is becoming a luxury as prices stay at record highs. They likely won’t come down until 2028, says expert [44d]
• The AI boom is singlehandedly carrying the U.S. import market—and adding $200 billion to the trade deficit, Fed study finds [44d]
• The Mythos meeting focused on the wrong AI risk to banks. Here’s the one nobody is talking about [44d]
• Billionaire Michael Dell started his company in his University of Texas dorm room. Now, he’s betting on AI with a $750 million gift [44d]
• The internet isn’t just like real life, a top VC says — it is real life. For a16z, that’s not philosophy, it’s an investment [44d]
• $75 billion investment chief: Now is exactly the right time to double down in the Gulf [44d]
• The AI economy runs on helium. The Iran war just created a $650 billion problem [44d]
• Iran has Trump caught on the same math that Ukraine is using against Putin: $1 million missiles, $20,000 drones [44d]
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says you won’t lose your job to AI—you’ll lose it to your coworker who uses it [44d]
• Gen Z graduates’ best shot at good pay and homeownership isn’t in New York or L.A.—it’s Omaha and Dallas [44d]
• Trump administration reportedly nears $500 million rescue deal for Spirit Airlines [44d]
• Elon Musk thinks college is ‘basically for fun’—but his former Tesla HR chief tells Gen Z even their liberal arts degrees are more valuable than ever [44d]
• Capcom, Virgin Voyages bet on AI to reshape gaming and cruise travel [44d]
• Meet the man who invents new potato varieties for your potato chips: 5 new variants in the last 15 years [44d]
• Iran fires on 3 ships in Strait of Hormuz amid supposedly indefinite cease-fire [44d]
• Steve Jobs called Tim Cook ‘not a product person,’ but still hand-picked him to run Apple and turn it into a $4 trillion tech giant [44d]
• Current price of oil as of April 22, 2026 [44d]
• ‘An investment thesis is not a religion’: $44 billion CIO warns you need to figure out how you might lose money, not just make it [44d]
• The $6 trillion reinvention: Why IT services firms must start underwriting outcomes [45d]
• Stephen and Ayesha Curry are coming for the sports drink market—and their kids were the first focus group [45d]
• At $5 billion startup Checkr new employees build an app using AI during onboarding—even the new CFO [45d]
• Gen Z is doing (almost) everything right with money—and still getting burned [45d]
• Yale asked the right question. Now the rest of higher education owes an answer [45d]
• Wall Street won’t like it—but Kevin Warsh may mark the end of your chatty, neighborhood Fed chairman [45d]
• America’s national debt is heading to 175% of GDP. Here’s why no president—including Trump—has the will to stop it [45d]
• Musk wanted to flee Delaware. This CEO wants to fix it [45d]
• ‘Something sinister’: What we know about the FBI probe into dead and missing scientists linked to space and military industries [45d]
• The Godmother of Silicon Valley and her former student want to fix how healthcare gets built [45d]
• 70% of people believe at least one divisive health claim. Science needs a new playbook [45d]
• The health misinformation crisis is bigger than anyone thought: Most people worldwide believe at least one of 6 common medical myths [45d]
• Europe has the talent and dunding to win at AI. First, it needs to break free from the Magnificent Seven [45d]
• Meet the film school dropout who became a billionaire quantum computing CEO in days thanks to Nvidia [45d]
• Craving work-life balance is a huge red flag, says Fortune 500 CEO—and like Barack Obama, he happily works through the weekends [45d]
• Boards say the C-suite owns the AI strategy. The C-suite doesn’t agree [45d]
• Palantir published a mini manifesto calling some cultures ‘harmful and middling’ and said Silicon Valley has ‘a moral debt’ to the U.S. [45d]
• The housing affordability crisis isn’t just crushing millennials—it’s squeezing out buyers in their 40s, 50s and beyond too [45d]
• Feud between AI power startup Fermi and its fired CEO and top shareholder heats up over proposed sale [45d]